On the morning of her wedding, Mia Calloway finds her fiancé in bed with her own sister, and learns her parents knew all along. Days later, her father's debt to the city's most feared Don comes due, and the family decides she's the one who'll pay it. Vincent Sabbatini doesn't want money. He wants a wife. Mia agrees to save her father, expecting nothing but a transaction. She doesn't expect a husband guarding a wound of his own, a family that treats her better than her own ever did, or the woman from Vincent's past who's about to walk back in and threaten everything.

On the morning of her wedding, Mia Calloway finds her fiancé in bed with her own sister, and learns her parents knew all along. Days later, her father's debt to the city's most feared Don comes due, and the family decides she's the one who'll pay it. Vincent Sabbatini doesn't want money. He wants a wife. Mia agrees to save her father, expecting nothing but a transaction. She doesn't expect a husband guarding a wound of his own, a family that treats her better than her own ever did, or the woman from Vincent's past who's about to walk back in and threaten everything.

"I need a wife. One year. Nothing more." He said it like a business transaction. Cold. Like I was just another contract to sign. And maybe I was. Because I had forty seven thousand dollars of debt, a sick sister, and absolutely no other options. So I signed. But nobody warned me about the way he looked at me. Like he was trying very hard to feel nothing. And failing.